Bombing of Dakar — Operation Menace

23–25 sept. 1940 · Dakar

In September 1940, the Free French forces — led by General de Gaulle — and the British Royal Navy attempted to retake Dakar from Vichy French forces. The operation, called Menace, failed after two days of fighting. Senegalese civilians were hit. Dakar remained under Vichy control until 1942.

Sources

• Herodote.net — de Gaulle échoue devant Dakar
• Archives nationales d'outre-mer (ANOM) — la bataille de Dakar, 23-25 septembre 1940
• Persée — H.-D. Segretain, De Gaulle en échec ? Dakar, 1940 (compte rendu, 1994)
• Cairn — « Les guerres franco-françaises en Afrique, août-novembre 1940 » (Atlas de la France dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale)
• R. K. Noppen, Dakar 1940 : Operation Menace and the Allied Disaster in West Africa (Google Books)

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